When comparing Loggly vs ODE, the Slant community recommends Loggly for most people. In the question“What are the best log aggregation & monitoring tools?”Loggly is ranked 6th while ODE is ranked 34th. The most important reason people chose Loggly is:

Pros

Pro

Automatically captures JavaScript errors

Pro

Hosted on a CDN already

Unlike Airbrake or LogEntries, you can download the library from GitHub and concatenate/minify it along with your other JS, or you can use it directly from Loggly's CDN.

Pro

Easy to set up

You only have to set up a HTTP JSON input and there are community examples to guide you.

Pro

Supports raw text, syslogs, and JSON

Raw text, syslogs, and JSON can be fed to Loggly.

Pro

Scales easily

ODE instances are independent of each other, so they don't have to worry about a peer being added/removed. This allows the cluster to grow without any performance hit on the log aggregation. There is no redundancy built-in, but you can always use the forwarder to duplicate data. There is no sharding configuration or any other penalty that comes up with scaling a cluster. The clustering configuration is also very easy where you just list out peers for one of the node in order for it to run a search query on the whole cluster and merge the results. Scales better than any other open source log management tool out there.

Pro

Add new parsers as you like

You can add any parser you want to ODE.

Pro

Highly customizable

Pro

Easy to use

Cons

Con

Difficult to setup

Setup is not easy, the whole process is disjointed, with open source libraries that regularly change and out of date installation instructions.

Con

Expensive

Loggly QUICKLY overflows the 200mb daily free allowance.

Con

The UI is confusing

The UI is very difficult to use, but it does offer a lot of features.

Con

Timestamps are in UTC in the UI, and can't be converted

Loggly shows all timestamps in UTC, and the bookmarklet that's supposed to convert them to local time doesn't work.

Con

JavaScript tracker has removed tag support

Con

Still in beta

Opallios ODE seems to be still in beta, as such there may be issues or missing features which are not yet implemented.